21 August, 2014

19 August, 2014

The human voices heard on this album were created from recordings of speech and song. The original recordings were made in the following languages: Aboroginal, Afghan, Arabic, Balinese, Buhndi, Chad, Chinese, English, Eskimo, French, Gabonese, German, Hungarian, Indian, Japanese, Madagascan, Malayan, Pigmy, Quechua, Russian, Sioux, Spanish, Swedish, Tibetan, Turkish. They were edited and transformed using different electronic devices.

11 June, 2014

I can't think of a label in 2014 that would benefit more from including suicide hotline pamphlets with each purchase than the Flenser. Their back-to-back-to-back releases are a testament to the various misfortunes that can render life a burden and make it worse than annihilation. The most recent dose of blubber-stripping misery is flayed courtesy of the tall, dark, and handsome duo known as Wreck and Reference. All the genre-defying gloominess of 2012's No Youth is present: cryptic verse belted out in nihilistic howl and underpinned by poignant synthesizer. Want overtakes its predecessor with a more robust and disorienting rhythm section, solidifying W&R's trademark brand of incurable depravity.

31 May, 2014

18 May, 2014

HR Giger, the man responsible for designing the greatest microphone stand ever, passed away early last week. The Swiss born biomechanical nightmare technician was most famous for his conception of filmmonsters, but his work was also used for album covers of varying musical merit (ranging from dollar bin fodder to wall-shelf masterpiece). Here are three records that feature Giger artwork and lean toward the latter end of the spectrum.